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Imagine if the main manufacturing hubs were in India or Brazil instead of China and Taiwan, we would be looking at even worse supplies with no hope of restoration of the remaining year.
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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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Glad I bought my Asus Rog Strix RTX 3070 for £750 back before Christmas. They are over £1500 or higher new! If you can even find one? The whole market is crazy.
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The problem is that the fabs are extraordinarily expensive to set up, they require specialist equipment and can often take years to go from planning to actual manufacturing. I think TSMC estimate future fabs in the $20Bn range, yes that's Billion.
The actual circumstance we're in right now I think is just a perfect storm of lots of badly timed things all happening at once. Covid drives down ability to make things safely, and drives up the demand of in-home entertainment devices as people suffer lock downs. Many different devices all share the output of these fabs, they're used for CPUs and GPUs, but they're also used in the the new console APUs, as well as phones, cars and many other devices. When you start to look at the number of units these things sell globally you can get a good idea of how lots of high profile releases so close together could cause a shortage. Miners also aren't helping but I think that's been overplayed a bit, if you look at shortages they're just widespread across all the industry, so it's just as hard to get a PS5 right now as an RTx3000 series yet miners have no real impact to PS5 availability, the real bottleneck here is the fabs themselves.
Hmmm. It's a terrible deal, only reason for buying that is if your current card bricked. I actually bought a 2080 just before the RTX launch - turned out to be slower than my 1080 so I sent it back. Could have turned a nice profit on that if I'd kept it.
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Hmmm. It's a terrible deal, only reason for buying that is if your current card bricked. I actually bought a 2080 just before the RTX launch - turned out to be slower than my 1080 so I sent it back. Could have turned a nice profit on that if I'd kept it.
Sorry, what?
It factually isn't.
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i'm not caring so much as I don't play many games that even need my 1080ti these days, I've been eyeing up a Nintendo switch, just to play Mario maker but I won't
as I made the same mistake just buying a PS3 just to play SFIV.
as I made the same mistake just buying a PS3 just to play SFIV.
They are selling OK we have decent volumes of 6700 XT and 2060 now so they should not really sell out unless a rush happens for some reasons but we have sold around 200x 2060 today and over 100 6700 XT, see how weekend goes but our 6700 XT are priced quite well compared to other resellers.
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Wow! That's some numbers!
Can't believe I'm saying this but I'm finding myself getting suckered in by the hype train, FOMO and generally reacting to what's happening with prices. Pre-launch I said there was no way I would pay £649 for a 3080 but would probably pay £750 now just because it would seem like a 'good deal'.
I've been on a couple of discord alert channels the past couple of days and it becomes like a bit of a drug trying to chase a purchase, thankfully I've managed to hold firm on all the cards that have been in stock with silly prices. Massive wild goose chase anyway, all the vaguely sensibly priced stuff is sold out by the time you open a link.
I've been on a couple of discord alert channels the past couple of days and it becomes like a bit of a drug trying to chase a purchase, thankfully I've managed to hold firm on all the cards that have been in stock with silly prices. Massive wild goose chase anyway, all the vaguely sensibly priced stuff is sold out by the time you open a link.
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As it stands at the moment I'd probably pay £900 for a 3080 and feel like I've got a bargain lol.
Do we know the launch price of the 3080ti yet and if there might be some about that price on launch day (although the bots will snag them)?
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I think the initial rumours were that the target was $999 for the 3080ti, so probably means £900 to 950 here for the FE... then you could add more for the various AIB models.
Of course, more recent rumours are indicating that it will be higher than this by $100 or $200 (I can't remember exactly). Whether any card will actually ever sell at that rate remains to be seen, based on the past week I wouldn't be surprised to see the AIB models going for £2000 at retail (though I'm sure MSI will be at £2500...
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Of course, more recent rumours are indicating that it will be higher than this by $100 or $200 (I can't remember exactly). Whether any card will actually ever sell at that rate remains to be seen, based on the past week I wouldn't be surprised to see the AIB models going for £2000 at retail (though I'm sure MSI will be at £2500...
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Yup. My 1080 died last night.
Found a 2060 (on the website amusingly) and it's gone up over £100 over night.
Sod. Right. Off.
Found a 2060 (on the website amusingly) and it's gone up over £100 over night.
Sod. Right. Off.
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So the cost of the 3080 is about £1500, bargain!
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If that's the bundle I think it is, you forgot to list the Asus STRIX LC 240 AOI Cooler.
The parts (excluding the GPU) come to 1044 on their own, so a reasonable price for the GPU given the market just now. Was tempted by this myself, but as with so many bundles, the parts aren't quite what I was wanting (eg. I'm wanting an X570 motherboard... the B550 seems an odd choice for an 5900x)
Nah it makes the 3080 about 1240 in this bundle, pretty good tbh, with 3070's at £1200 yesterday
The MSRP for all these cards is overpriced IMHO. I've never paid anything near £500 for any 3070 equivalent. The last card I bought was £251. Scary.